As so frequently stated hereabouts since forever ( since 2007 , to be precise), the whole point of French energy policy is to have someone e...

As argued here several times, governments are deeply ill-advised to set "legally binding targets" for Net Zero policies.  Well, LB...

+ + UPDATED + +   - see below Defence projects are the bane of the taxpayer's existence.  (Along with NHS IT projects, PPS procurement e...

We all saw Greta in action back in 2019-20 and - promoted by whatever adult agency was lurking in the background - how she captured attentio...

It's worth a small laugh over this cold weekend, but you have also to feel sorry for General Eric Vidaud, head of French military "...

The only time the global energy crisis was front and centre in the UK's dozy media was when there was also a completely coincidental ...

Theresa May has lambasted Boris Johnson in Parliament for his choice of National Security Adviser .  He really ought to listen to her on thi...

Regular readers will know I identify 2019 as the year everything changed .  Up until then (in my estimation), most people's attitude to ...

One of our recent visitors queried my offhand comment that EDF was in Big Trouble (BTL on the "Negative Prices" piece). Easy:  E...

From time to time we pass comment on Centrica - partly because energy is one of our themes; and partly because from inception as an Enron-wa...

This - From Bill Quango 27/6/2017 I'm usually last man standing, backing our people. I was the one saying 'Sven-Göran Eriksson ...

With apologies to Paul McCartney ... [four bars of plaintive harp music] Wednesday morning at twelve o’clock, PMQs begin  Goes through ...

Yes, it's that time of the political cycle. Bring on the dancing girls! With apologies to Warren & Dublin & 42nd Street     ...

So: counting down in hours now.  Mrs May is currently pouring out the initiatives & money etc at such a rate, it's hard to be defini...

Later this week, we're told, the long-trailed announcement will be made of a new approach to financing nuclear power plants in the UK. ...

While the Tory Party agonises over which 'unt is to lead us to glory, time for some weekend musing over the rather extreme choice the tw...

As you perhaps know I am an inveterate, nay veteran strategiser: I have done it for a living in the military and in commerce.  In the afterm...

As you may recall, I consider the worst feature of May's baleful legacy to be that by failing to crush the morale of the bedsit left in...

[Foreword - to those C@W readers who have apoplexy at the suggestion CO2 emissions contribute to climate change: the rights and wrongs of th...

“ There is a great deal of ruin in a nation "   (Adam Smith) We are not yet holed below the water line; but a lot of the rigging has ...